Nevada County picayune., 1887-08-18
ANSLEY'S HERESiES.

Eiiltof lICA1 LIN .--I IHe Euitof oi the Dispatcl in last weeks iS- sue. iu a short continent on tue Ottawa scandal, uses language which, as think. is unwarrauted when applied 10 thc men and wo- men of our country The Editor seems to be chased by phantom, and in a rilioment ot frenzy has said things which am inclined to believe he would not endorse iu his calmer moments. Hear him "Such events are the ouigrowth of the Hazard plan oi slavery, Ex- trene wealth gives birth to animal passions of most degraded char acter, and gives power to force poverty to yield up her yIrtue." And again. We are putting on the same system that England and ! Canada have been using, the Eu. ropean plan. Mark my words: you cannot escape the inc vitable effects which you see on London and Ottawa Poor, dispirited, starving parents have no redress no law, no money to indiet, and must submit" s#. -.. 1 That is to say according to the 1 opinion of the Dispatch Editor, il ! man is the possessor of little wealth he thereby has power to force the yirtuous daughters ol our land to his will and yield up to him their virtue. That it is prob
 able the brave men of this country will be reduced to a condition which will compel them to sell the 1 virtue of their wives and daugh' ters to obtain what may be neces- sary to sustain life.
 am sorry that man who has been reared and educated among us. places so low an estimate upon the character of our nieu and Wo. men as to believe 1t in the range of possibilities for them to became so degraded that they will submit to such practices as intiHlated by him. He says, in effect, that the state of things that recently existed Ill London and now exist in Ottawa is upon us and we cannot escape it. Where is it? Let him point ! it out at once, that tue people may take council and provide as well as possible against such a direful calamity.
 Where is the man or people III this country who are making prop CT exertions to provide for them selves who are not beyond the reach of the possibility of such events. So far from the picture drawn by the Editor being true, we have all around gs the most convincing ev- idences ot prosperity. We bave numbers ol men in our commuui. ty who but few years since set. tied in the forests, and begun clearing and cultivating land; they were then almost pcnniless, but are to-day in good circumstances, out of debt, and surrounded with all the necessarieS and comforts of life; and all the result of industry and economy. What they have done others can do. There is no law to prevent one man from ac- complaining as much as another. Then why this oft repeated cry of the Editor that the country is so- ing to the 'Dimniton Bow wOwsn2 It is without foundation. The in. creased acreage of land cultivated, the increased value of the taxable property, and the annual decrease in the number of mortgages on our records, all contradict it.
 The Hazard plan, this phantom that seems to be pursuing the Ed. itor, is not disturbing any one eX- cept him and few deluded fol- lowers. The people have no fears in that direction. They have too much faith and trust in their gov. ernment and laws to let that cost them any uneasiness. The Editor is not satisfied with shaking at us this hideous Hazard plan, but as a panacea for all the evils that threat. en us points us to his tavorite gov ernment, Sparta, set up and run by his model statesman and law.